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Any well known reliability issues with these British rifles?
Is there another battle rifle as accurate as the AR15 in use right now?
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steven04
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Since the upgrade to the A2 variant a variety of issues were addressed including in no particular order
The original furniture had a nasty habit of softening at high temp or with the "wrong" solvent.
There were batch/batches of the sears in the FCG that were incorrectly heat treated leading to the occasional fracture and uncontrolled mag dump.
The original cross throw safety was crappy placky and could be broken with an overly vigorous haul on the trigger
The magwell....oh joy of joys, made out of recycled Coke cans and could be easily dented in the delicate and girlie hand of your basic squaddie.
Mag release being placed perfectly to catch on the webbing at the most inopportune moment
The bolt head is the same cretinous dirt magnet daisy head design of the M16 but nobody though to incorporate the lessons learned with chamfering the lugs etc to cut down on lug fractures
Gas assembly was originally designed for the experimental 4.85x49 round was not re-tuned for the different characteristics of the NATO 5.56
The original mags were suckier than a sucky thing
The H und K refit addressed these and a lot of other niggles and NOW the weapon as the A2 is a lovely little beastie
The original furniture had a nasty habit of softening at high temp or with the "wrong" solvent.
There were batch/batches of the sears in the FCG that were incorrectly heat treated leading to the occasional fracture and uncontrolled mag dump.
The original cross throw safety was crappy placky and could be broken with an overly vigorous haul on the trigger
The magwell....oh joy of joys, made out of recycled Coke cans and could be easily dented in the delicate and girlie hand of your basic squaddie.
Mag release being placed perfectly to catch on the webbing at the most inopportune moment
The bolt head is the same cretinous dirt magnet daisy head design of the M16 but nobody though to incorporate the lessons learned with chamfering the lugs etc to cut down on lug fractures
Gas assembly was originally designed for the experimental 4.85x49 round was not re-tuned for the different characteristics of the NATO 5.56
The original mags were suckier than a sucky thing
The H und K refit addressed these and a lot of other niggles and NOW the weapon as the A2 is a lovely little beastie
highorder
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Looks cool, but how do you shoot it left handed?
I'm using a 12x scope. I can't touch that with irons. Ammo is XM193. Off my crappy, non-free floated bipod it's 1.5, sandbags it will do an inch maybe an inch and a quarter but I'm not a great shot.
@ those who are debating the importance of accuracy in a combat weapon: Get out of my thread! I just want to know what kind of groups other military rifles can do. Not which one you like for other reasons.
@ those who are debating the importance of accuracy in a combat weapon: Get out of my thread! I just want to know what kind of groups other military rifles can do. Not which one you like for other reasons.
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SharpsDressedMan
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Want to see 5.56 accuracy go to hell in a handbasket? Shoot it in variable wind at 300 yards. Makes you a believer in 7.62 in a hurry. I once shot an AR-15 with 55gr rounds at 200-250 yards on a slightly windy day, and was easily 12" off target. You are not going to shoot prairie dogs on a day like that with much consistency.
ganymede
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the new FN SCAR shoots .9 MOA or less out of the box with match ammo.
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